a. [f. prec. + -ED.]
1. gen. Having the shape of an arrow-head.
1876. Bancroft, Hist. U.S., V. xiv. 490. At Princeton, where Donop had thrown up arrow-headed earthworks.
2. spec. = Cuneiform; applied to the characters of the ancient inscriptions of Nineveh, Babylon, Persepolis, etc.
1816. T. Maurice, Ruins Bab., 158. The name of arrow-headed, bestowed upon these characters by himself [Dr. Hager].
1829. J. Kenrick, in Philos. Mag., May, 321. A stroke which, when elaborately made, resembles the head of an arrow; when less carefully cut or impressed, a wedge or a nail; and hence the inscriptions have been called arrowheaded, nailheaded, or cuneiform.
1847. Q. Rev., No. 158. 416. These cuneiform or arrow-headed characters are so called from one of the elements of which they consist, a straight line, slightly divided at the top like the notch of an arrow, and ending in a point, so as to represent a kind of wedge; the other element is an angle.
